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with fix^ïrotfdf'éd pounds^fterling, made
me'remark'two filver bits '(fmall pieces o f money) fet in
gold, ‘an'd1 furrounded with diamonds, with this infcrip-
tion
“ Spli Deç Gloria. F ortuna beaticum, &c.,r
• Having'figriified my furprizè at this peculiar attention
and refpeSt to two fikpëncés^hè decl'ared-to me that they
wère all the' môndy'he-had in the world when he firft
carde to; Surinam from his ©Wn country* Sweden*-^“ Did
“ you work ?”v faid I.— “^Noi”—“ Did you bég ?”— “ No.”
^^Yöü'diM^riöt ftëàl, 'fir Nd'iV.but; entré nous, I
whined“ and adted the enthufiaft, which1 fomëtimes is
“ very heceflkry, and 1 found preferable to the other
iC*tbPee-y—--To whicfifjl^âhfwéred, “ Sir, yoür candid con-'
“ feffion brings' back to my remembrance your u fa g eh f
“ yOuf iîëgrb flave^ Baron, after having promifed him his
« marihmifflon ’ ih': !Mmffërdatïi, $S*d fully proves1 what
“ ‘you have juft' afTerted.”— One inftahcc möfë o f thé ex-
travàgancfe 'and folly Of the' inhabitants o f this colony,
ahd r Jhavé*rdonë':'Two óf them disputing about amoft
elegant and expenfive carriagè that faas imported from
Holland, a law-fuit enfued immediately, to determine
who Wâs to poflefs it, during which time the coach was
left'hncoWered in thé ftreet till it fell to piécefs, and was
totally deftroyed.
Ón the ioth of February, mod: of our officers being
now arrived at Paramaribo from the 1 camp, Colonel
Fourgeoud
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